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Re: Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-founder's real estate

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Post by smabie »

nvr219 wrote: post #10
winstonchecksin wrote: post #6

We had BLM protests in my city. I’m all for the message behind it, but they smashed up mine and my husbands car windows. Should have taken advantage of the lax work from home policy and should have stayed home I guess? I’m no fan of the actual “organization” or the people behind it though, and it’s sad FB is actively censuring information.

Hi Winston, I want to know something: when cops murder somebody do you make a comment about it on hn or social media or anywhere, or do you only make comments when car windows get smashed?

I mean it's pretty logical for a person to care more about themselves and their property than anything else.

Re: Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-founder's real estate

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Post by edoceo »

Causality1 wrote: post #20
commandlinefan wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> posting a link to the HN discussion Well... contentious stories get removed from here, too. This is a topic that gets contentious.

Oh yeah. Every time someone posts an article covering that GPT HN fiasco it gets flagged and removed almost immediately.

what's that one about?

Re: Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-founder's real estate

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Post by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS »

tootahe45 wrote: post #12
winstonchecksin wrote: post #6

We had BLM protests in my city. I’m all for the message behind it, but they smashed up mine and my husbands car windows. Should have taken advantage of the lax work from home policy and should have stayed home I guess? I’m no fan of the actual “organization” or the people behind it though, and it’s sad FB is actively censuring information.

> I’m all for the message behind it > they smashed up mine and my husbands car windows Hopefully this caused you to do more research on the message.

> Hopefully this caused you to do more research on the message.

Well, they tried, but FB kept removing relevant links…

Re: Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-founder's real estate

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Post by toomuchtodo »

antiterra wrote: post #23
rayiner wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The identity of house buyers is a matter of public record. Not only is it searchable in multiple state databases (tax, real estate plats) but sale information including buyer and seller is typically published in the newspaper: https://www.chicagotribune.com/real-estate/sc-cons-0903-hous... > The information about your home purchase and the terms and conditions of your mortgage loan are recorded among the land records…

Doxxing that results in harassment is very often done via public information. What’s your point?

That the sharing of public information of public figures is in the public interest.

Also, doxxing isn’t illegal, although harassment is.

Re: Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-founder's real estate

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Post by jedberg »

nitrogen wrote: post #22
rayiner wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The identity of house buyers is a matter of public record. Not only is it searchable in multiple state databases (tax, real estate plats) but sale information including buyer and seller is typically published in the newspaper: https://www.chicagotribune.com/real-estate/sc-cons-0903-hous... > The information about your home purchase and the terms and conditions of your mortgage loan are recorded among the land records…

Do wealthy or famous people use some kind of property management entity to hide their personal info in those records?

They use trusts, or if they really want to be private, they have their estate lawyer's firm buy it for them and be the owner of record.

Re: Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-founder's real estate

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Post by biggus_dictus »

jokethrowaway wrote: post #29
nvr219 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi Winston, I want to know something: when cops murder somebody do you make a comment about it on hn or social media or anywhere, or do you only make comments when car windows get smashed?

I am completely against BLM and I am also completely against public police - and comment on both issues. I'm against public police because they do a terrible job (in a lot of ways, from racing to just being incompetent, to persecuting victimless crimes) and I wish we had private police. The only positive thing that could have come out of BLM was a discussion on this topic, instead they completely lacked the philosoph…

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Re: Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-founder's real estate

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Post by nate_meurer »

antiterra wrote: post #23
rayiner wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The identity of house buyers is a matter of public record. Not only is it searchable in multiple state databases (tax, real estate plats) but sale information including buyer and seller is typically published in the newspaper: https://www.chicagotribune.com/real-estate/sc-cons-0903-hous... > The information about your home purchase and the terms and conditions of your mortgage loan are recorded among the land records…

Doxxing that results in harassment is very often done via public information. What’s your point?

No, doxxing is the release of private information. That's the universally understood meaning of the term, and the only useful one. If you want to redefine the term to pertain to public information, then the term is no longer useful. It's just "displaying public information" at that point.

Re: Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-founder's real estate

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Post by sixothree »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #34
antiterra wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doxxing that results in harassment is very often done via public information. What’s your point?

That the sharing of public information of public figures is in the public interest. Also, doxxing isn’t illegal, although harassment is.

Maybe facebook has more insight as to how this article was being shared.

Re: Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-founder's real estate

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Post by throwawaysea »

Here is the New York Post's reply to to this (https://nypost.com/2021/04/16/social-media-again-silences-th...):

> Our article features some pictures of the properties she bought, but includes no addresses, in fact doesn’t even say the city in some cases. Our reporter compiled the information from public records.

It's incredible that they don't allow this information but were completely fine with people discussing Trump's private tax returns, which were illegally obtained. The reality is that big tech companies and social media are not helping ideas live or die by their merit, but rather hiding good ideas from reaching recipients who can decide what they want to do with that information themselves.

I think the most offensive part of this censorship, however, is that Facebook is also censoring this link from private messenger conversations. Abigail Shrier put it well (https://twitter.com/AbigailShrier/status/1382774842986954753):

> So Facebook is now effectively opening your mail and reading the contents for ideologically objectionable material.

> Anyone worried?

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